Friday, May 31, 2019


TAKE TEN
Paul Desmond - alto saxophone 
Jim Hall - guitar

RCA Victor

BOSSA ANTIGUA
Paul Desmond - alto saxophone
Jim Hall - guitar

RCA Victor

QUATUOR POUR LA FIN DU TEMPS
(Quartet for the End of Time)
Olivier Messiaen
Trio Wanderer
with Pascal Moraguès - clarinette

Harmonia Mundi

Thursday, May 30, 2019


PASSAGE
138 B.C - A.D. 1611  
Exploring new arrangments for music of the modal system.
Notre Dame Organum - Hildegaard von Bingen - Gregorian Chant - Nicolai Parmae - Francesco Landini - Carlo Gesualdo - Anonymous

Empire Brass Quintet
with acoustic and electric guitars, fretless bass, vocals, synthesizer, acoustic and electronic percussion
Rolf Smedvig - trumpet, arrangements, direction

Telarc

FUNERAL SENTENCES
Musique funèbre pour la Reine Mary
Henry Purcell
Collegium Vocale
Philippe Herreweghe - director

Harmonia Mundi

MISHIMA
Film Music
Philip Glass
Kronos Quartet
A Contracted Ensemble of Musicians
Michael Reisman - conductor

Nonesuch

BAGS MEETS WES!
Milt Jackson - vibes
Wes Montgomery
- guitar
Wynton Kelly - piano
Sam Jones - double bass
Philly Joe Jones - drums

Riverside

Wednesday, May 29, 2019


MUSIKALISCHE EXEQUIEN
Motetten und Konzerte
Heinrich Schütz
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts
John Elliot Gardiner - director

Archiv Produktion

MADRIGALI CONCERTATI
Claudio Monteverdi
Tragicomedia
John Potter - tenor
Stephen Stubbs - lute, direction

Apex via Teldec

RENÉ CLEMENCIC ET SES FLÛTES
Music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance for Twenty-One Members of the Flute Family
Clemencic Consort
René Clemenic - flutes, director

Harmonia Mund

Tuesday, May 28, 2019


MISSA GLORIA TIBI TRINITAS
Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas - Leroy Kyrie - Dum transisset Sabbatum
John Taverner (c1490-1545)
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips - director

Gimell

MAGNUM MYSTERIUM II
Sacred Music 15th-20th c.
Various Composers
Various Performers
Ellen Holmes - curator

Celestial Harmonies via Teldec

Monday, May 27, 2019


BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini - director

Naïve

PIÈCES EN TRIO
Pour les flûtes, violon et dessus de viole
Marin Marais
Aux Pieds du Roy
Michael Form, Dirk Boerner - direction

Ambronay

SHELTER
Olivia Chaney

Nonesuch

RY COODER
Ry Cooder

Reprise

THE EARTH IS NOT A COLD DEAD PLACE
Explosions in the Sky

The Temporary Residence

SYMPHONIES NO.7 & 8
mit Originalinstrumenten
Ludwig van Beethoven
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner - conductor

Archiv Produktion

HANS WERNER HENZE
Ode to the West Wind* - Five Neapolitan Songs** - Three Dithyrambs***  
Hans Werner Henze
Gustav Rivinius - violoncello*
Roland Herrmann - baritone**  
Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra
*Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, **Cristóbal Halffter, ***Günter Wich - conductors

Arte Nova

Sunday, May 26, 2019


FRATRES
Fratres (six different versions), Summa, Festina Lente, and Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Arvo Pärt
I Fiamminghi: The Orchestra of Flanders
Rudolf Werthen - conductor

Telarc

BOOMER'S STORY
Ry Cooder

Reprise

AFTER BATHING AT BAXTER'S
Jefferson Airplane

RCA Victor

PARADISE AND LUNCH
Ry Cooder

Reprise

THE LILTING BANSHEE
Traditional Airs & Dances for Celtic Harp
Eileen Monger - Celtic harp
Mike Billinge - bodhran
George Monger - hammer dulcimer
Jenny McLeod - uilleann pipes

MHS via Saydisc

Saturday, May 25, 2019


NEW MOON DAUGHTER
Cassandra Wilson

Blue Note

SELECTED RECORDINGS
ECM 1981 - 1993
Bill Frisell

:rarum
ECM

SEPAN TODOS QUE MUERO
Music of Peasants and Courtiers in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 17th-18th c.
Various Colonial and Anonymous Native
Música Ficta

Centaur

Friday, May 24, 2019


FELIX AUSTRIA
Works for Viola da Gamba Consort.
Kaiser Ferdinand III - Johann Jacob Froberger - Giovanni Legrenzi - Leopold I - Johann Heinrich Schmelzer - Giovanni Valentini
Hamburger Ratsmusik
Klaus Mertens - bass
Simone Eckert - direction, bass viola da gamba

CPO

DOUBLE SEXTET (2007)*
2 X 5 (2008)**
Steve Reich
eighth blackbird*
Bang on a Can**

Nonesuch

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Wednesday, May 22, 2019


IN LAMBETH
Visions from the Walled Garden of William Blake
John Zorn
The Gnostic Trio
  • Carol Emanuel - harp
  • Bill Frisell - guitar
  • Kenny Wollesen - vibraphone, bells
  • with Ikue Mori - electronics
Tzadik

ART OF THE FUGUE
J. S. Bach
Canadian Brass

CBS Records Masterworks

CANTATAS
BWV 140, 147
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ruth Holton - soprano
Michael Chance - countertenor
Anthony Rolfe Johnson - tenor
Stephen Varcoe - bass
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner - director

Archiv

Tuesday, May 21, 2019


EARLY MUSIC
(Lachrymæ Antiquæ)
Guillaume de Machaut - Christopher Tye - David Lamb - Arvo Pärt - Harry Partch - John Cage - Louis Hardin - Hildegard von Bingen - Perotin, Henry Purcell - Alfred Schnittke
Kronos Quartet

Nonesuch

DANGEROUS
Wes Montgomery - guitar
Monk Montgomery - bass
Bobby Thomas - drums
Buddy Montgomery - piano,  vibraphone
Johnny Griffin - saxophone
Wynton Kelly - piano
Jimmy Cobb - drums
Paul Chambers - bass
Melvin Rhyne - organ
George Brown - drums
Paul Humphrey - drums

Milestone - Fantasy

EL CANT DE LA SIBIL-LA
Mallorca & València, 1400-1560
Spanish Anonymous
La Capella Reial De Catalunya
Montserrat Figueras - soprano
Jordi Savall - viola da gamba, director

Alia Vox

IN NOMINE
16th-Century English Music for Viols
Tallis - Tye - Cornysh - Baldwin - Bull - Byrd - Taverner - Preston - Johnson - Parsons - Ferraboseo
Fretwork

Musical Heritage Society

SECOND SIGHT
Marc Johnson's Bass Desires
 Marc Johnson – bass
 Bill Frisell – guitar
 John Scofield – guitar
 Peter Erskine – drums

ECM

TEATRO LIRICO
Sonatas and Dances from 17th Century Italy and Slovakia
Teatro Lirico
Stephen Stubbs - baroque guitar, chitarrone, director
Milos Valent - violin, viola
Maxine Eilander - Spanish and Italian harps
Erin Headley - viola da gamba, lirone

ECM New Series

Monday, May 20, 2019


PASSAGE
138 B.C - A.D. 1611  
Exploring new arrangments for music of the modal system.
Notre Dame Organum - Hildegaard von Bingen - Gregorian Chant - Nicolai Parmae - Francesco Landini - Carlo Gesualdo - Anonymous

Empire Brass Quintet
with acoustic and electric guitars, fretless bass, vocals, synthesizer, acoustic and electronic percussion
Rolf Smedvig - trumpet, arrangements, direction

Telarc

STRAVAGANZE
17th-century Italian Songs and Dances
Trabaci - Dell'Arpa - Peri - Vitali - Zannetti - Sabino - Rovetta - Castello - Monteverdi - Gesualdo - Farina
The King's Noyse
–David Douglas - violin, director
–Robert Mealy - violin, viola
–Scott Metcalfe - viola
–Jane Starkman - viola
–Emily Walhout - bass violin
–Ellen Hargis - soprano
  with
Andrew Lawrence-King - harp

Harmonia Mundi USA

PAVANIGLIA
Dances & Madrigals from 17th-century Italy
Sances - Zanetti - Pesenti - Corbetta - Rossi - Monteverdi - Gesualdo - Farina
The King's Noyse
–David Douglas - violin, director
–Robert Mealy - violin, viola
–Scott Metcalfe - viola
–Margaret Tindemans - viola
–Emily Walhout - bass violin
–Ellen Hargis - soprano
  with
Paul O'Dette - lute, chittarrone
Andrew Lawrence-King - harp

Harmonia Mundi USA

"MY SELFE"
16th-Century Pavans, Galliards, and Almains
Anthony Holborne
The King's Noyse
–David Douglas - violin, director
–Robert Mealy - vilin, viola
–Scott Metcalfe - viola
–Margaret Tindemans - viola
–Emily Walhout - bass violin
with Paul O'Dette - lute, cittern

Harmonia Mundi USA

AGUIRRE
Metodo de citara of Sebastián de Aguirre
Los Otros
    Hille Perle - viola da gamba, treble viol, xarana
    Lee Santana - Mexican cittern, chitarrone, xarana
    Steve Player - xarana, chitarrone, Baroque guitar, cajón
    Pedro Estevan - all kinds of incredible stuff, especially his hands and a triangle

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Sunday, May 19, 2019


CONCIERTO
Jim Hall – guitar, acoustic guitar
Paul Desmond – alto saxophone
Chet Baker – trumpet
Roland Hanna – piano
Ron Carter – upright bass
Steve Gadd – drums

CTI

BILL EVANS
Compositions of Bill Evans
Paul Motian - drums
Bill Frisell - guitar
Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone
Mark Johnson - bass

Winter & Winter Music Edition

PIÈCES EN TRIO
Pour les flûtes, violon et dessus de viole
Marin Marais
Aux Pieds du Roy
- Michael Form and Dirk Boerner

Ambronay

Saturday, May 18, 2019


FRATRES
Fratres (six different versions), Summa, Festina Lente, and Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Arvo Pärt
I Fiamminghi: The Orchestra of Flanders
Rudolf Werthen - conductor

Telarc